Jerome Corsi is interviewed on Fox News regarding his best seller book. About halfway through the interview, J. Corsi goes into some very detailed discussion regarding the fake COLB.

As far as I know, this is the 1st instance in which this potential scandal has been mentioned on a major MSM news outlet. (There was also a recent CBS website commentary that, not surprisingly, viciously attacked the internet blogs which have been tracking and publishing the birth certificate controversy.)

“The most convincing evidence Obama was living in Indonesia as a Muslim, not simply registered as Muslim because his father was Muslim, comes from Obama’s experience at the government-run public school at SDN 1 Menteng, Jakarta, not from his time at the Catholic Assisi School in Jakarta,” Corsi argued.

On pages 59-60 of “The Obama Nation”, Corsi cites a Kaltim Post interview with Tine Hahiyary, one of Obama’s teachers at the public school.

Tine Hahiyary affirmed that Barry Soetoro had been registered as a Muslim and took part actively in the Islamic religious lessons during his time at the school.

“The Obama campaign desperately wants to deny Obama was raised as a Muslim child in the four years he lived in Indonesia from age 6 to 10,” Corsi said. “These are formative years in a child’s religious education.”

“What the record clearly shows is not only that Obama received Islamic instruction, at least in the public school he attended,” Corsi concluded, “but he received the type of Islamic instruction reserved for Muslim children in a government school system that mandated Islamic instruction at that time for all children attending public school in Indonesia.”

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rosettasister,
You write “I think perhaps your question should be directed at Senator Obama.”
As far as I can tell, Obama has answered the question. He apparently doesn’t consider himself a Muslim nor that his early training has much influence on his thinking now. He has never denied his Muslim background. The fact that Corsi or anyone seem to think someone who went to a Muslim school for a couple of years is now a practicing radical Islamofacist is absurd. It’s religious bias similar to what Kennedy faced as a Catholic.

The problem with the Muslim education in Indonesia isn’t so much that he had it, but that he lied about it because on his website, Obama’s been maintaining he was never a Muslim and he’d never had Islamic instruction.

Why Senator Obama felt the need to deny this part of his past is beyond me.